Some songs come like pronouncements, slick and solid. And then there are songs like "Wayward Wind," which feel more like weather systems, unstable, changing, and weirdly honest in their movement through you. Robbie Mangiardi leans hard into that instability, releasing a music video that doesn’t merely complement the track but expands its emotional spectrum.
“Wayward Wind” seems to tap into a collective anxiety, something hanging in the air amid uncertain and difficult times. It doesn't strive to define that experience so much as it lives in it, shaping it with sound and vision. Less a story, more an atmosphere. One that softly admits how many of us have felt a little untethered. And how that shared drift might make us feel less alone.
The song itself has a long emotional history. Around 2017, he began to sense something about the atmosphere of the country he couldn't quite put his finger on. It wasn’t apparent, it had no name, but it was there. It grew in his mind, and over the last year, it slowly came into clarity.
Visually, Mangiardi also takes on the job of storyteller head-on. In the video, he took the director’s chair, putting it together from his own storyboard, before collaborating with Thai artist JAY JAY Kerospath for the final visual. The result is a translation of inner feeling into imagery, carefully guided but open enough to breathe.